The avid researchers of the Rare Book Project are Koncz Krisztina, Unger Ágota, and Zsifcsák Emese (Behind the camera and the project: Zsolt Almási). Have you ever found a hundred-year-old book at home? Did you feel that you were holding a piece of history? The English Department’s Rare Book Project allowed our research group to…
In Moldova apparently there has always been a cultural duality or rather a cultural tension since it became a modern state-entity: first as member state of the Soviet Union, than, from 1991, as an independent state. While a member of the Soviet Union, Moldova and its local culture were subdued to the Russian influence. This…
The mysterious green-eyed girl has the expression recalling that of a frightened animal caught in the headlights of a car. She is known as the “Afghan girl” and her picture is renowned throughout the world. Though everyone knows this iconic photograph, they might not know much about the man behind it, Steve McCurry. His photographs…
Edward Burne-Jones: The Last Sleep of Arthur, 1881–1898 When we look at some of the most popular pieces of fiction in the English language we find that most of them contain a little bit of supernatural. From the ever popular plays of Shakespeare to the newest young adult fiction witches are guaranteed to pop up…
In this series we have looked at two tracks of euphemism in Lolita. I use a wider definition of euphemism, than a socio-linguistic phenomenon: something that both undermines and reinforces a social taboo. Taboo is a topic not to be expressed – a gap – in social language (including every instance of social/public interaction). Euphemism…
With this article, the first stage of my research ends. My conclusions are the following: Greider emancipates himself and others by obliterating the “main” Brenner bloodline; he becomes authority in a village where authority meant restraints and desolation of morals. At the end, he abandons the village like he was never meant to be there. Hell-bent…
Previously I discussed how the faun, both as emblem and topic of decadent art, is used to euphemise paedophilia in Lolita. If I were to continue that chain of thoughts, I’d say that the two facets of the novel’s central entity, the faun and Humbert, are interchangeable not only as characters in the plot,…
Last spring I composed a BA thesis, which shed light on the disgustingly honourable ethics of Martin McDonagh’s protagonists in In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths. Although my BA work will not be directly referenced in the upcoming series of articles, it still provides the ideological basis of my MA thesis about Western “cowboy” principles in…
A review of Örkény Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (dir. Bagossy László) by Hujbert Gellért I came out of Örkény Theatre with mixed feelings. Previously, I had prepared myself to be ready to compare it to the performances or adaptations I had already seen, yet after this experience, I had a hard time collecting my…